New Book Released By The Only Female Deputy Postmaster General

As deputy postmaster general, she served in the “No. 2 job in the U.S. Postal Service,”1 from 1985 until her retirement in 1987, “managing the world’s largest non-civilian workforce of 800,000 and a $32 billion budget.” In an inspiring memoir, MS. DEPUTY POSTMASTER GENERAL, author Jackie A. Strange shares with readers her remarkable achievements and how trusted leadership, courage, and innovations impacted the postal service

The Shooting at Royal Oak, Michigan Post Office

The Tainted Eagle   On November 14, 1991 a tragedy occurred at the Royal Oak post office. Five people lost their lives in the shootings in Royal Oak, Michigan, a small Midwest town, which would inherit the distinction of developing the media paraphrase “going postal”. Besides five people losing their lives, another five were seriously injured and over a hundred employees went into a state of shock. (2/23/09)

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by Charlie Withers - Description - This book is an expose into the tragedy that occurred at the Royal Oak Post Office on November 14, 1991. Accounts within this story are very complex due to so many government agencies being involved and attempting to whitewash this travesty. My story reflects twelve years of my life as a union steward representing letter carriers, investigating one of the oldest Federal agencies and finding the extremes they would take in order to protect a system and those within the system from any liabilities. This book was also written in hope of preventing any other avoidable tragedies, and to explain why there is a need for ACCOUNTABILITY!

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Beyond Going Postal - Written from an Insider's Perspective

By Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D.


Beyond Going Postal: Shifting from Workplace Tragedies and Toxic Work Environments to a Safe and Healthy Organization by Dr. Stephen Musacco examines the history of violence and toxic work environments within the U.S. Postal Service organization and its negative impacts on the health and psychological well-being of its employees. This book provides an answer to the question: Why has there been so much violence in the U.S. Postal Service and what can be done to prevent it? Musacco provides comprehensive evidence of the decline of the organizational culture within the Postal Service and the internal neglect, denial, and lack of accountability by postal management that fosters toxic workplace environments. This book is, to date, the most comprehensive analysis available on postal workplace violence and postal culture in general, and it includes a blueprint for postal management and government leaders to make the U.S. Postal Service a healthier organization for its employees. Written with postal rank and file, union, management, and government leaders in mind, this book sounds a clarion call to action that cannot be ignored.

Chapter 11-Open Letter To Congress

About the Author
Stephen Musacco retired from the U.S. Postal Service in January 2007, as a Workplace Improvement Analyst. In his thirty-five year tenure with the Postal Service, thirteen years were in the workplace improvement area, while six were in Employee Assistance Programming


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Book Description
One sunny day on his postal route, South Minneapolis, MN Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, and Wyckoff moves down the block slowly, looking high and low, hoping to spot the little bird. He reaches the man’s house and offers sympathy to his wife, who smiles sadly and says, “We haven’t had that bird for twenty-five years.”

Letter carriers like Wyckoff walk through the same neighborhood each day, observing the lives and routines of its residents. They learn its stories, make connections between people, and, in many ways, become the common thread that connects neighbors to one another. Along Wyckoff’s mail route, Native American children teach him about totems. He finds assistance for a reclusive chain-smoking book collector who can’t maintain his property. He delivers a much-delayed registered letter mailed from Saigon in 1976. Over the years, Wyckoff sees the neighborhood of blue-collar retirees change as a diverse group of younger people move in and raise their families.

Celebrating the triumphs in everyday life and demonstrating the danger of trusting first impressions, Beware of Cat reveals the inner workings of an ordinary place of extraordinary interest.

Vincent Wyckoff was a laborer, a construction worker, and a sheetmetal worker before he became a letter carrier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. This is his first book. The book is scheduled to be published March 15, 2007.

Management evolution>-False Prophets-The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. The guru of this moment was brutal bantam Frederick W. Taylor, who, in the late 19th century, instituted an elaborate system of mind-numbing work rules that would make a postal worker of today feel like the master of his destiny. These rules made factories ragingly efficient by reducing waste and increasing output. Their inhumane treatment of the prole also gave efficient rise to